A makerspace set up for a children's psychotherapy group teaching emotional regulation, anxiety and safe spaces.
Child's hands creating an art project on paper with colorful crayon or paint strokes, small wooden logs, aluminum foil, a small cup with green pom-poms, a white candle, and a crumpled tissue.
A creative art-therapy project designed by a child in a psycho educational group about building safe spaces and emotional regulation
A person using tweezers to carefully remove small debris from a textured, brown surface.
An example of the items offered and created during a children's psycho educational group session on creating safe spaces
A miniature created during a child's emotional regulation and building safe spaces psycho educational group.

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Looking back on Name it to Tame it
Sep
13
children's mental health, children's psycho education, mental health, emotional regulation, self-regulation, co-regulation, art therapy, narrative therapy, socialization, socializing

Looking back on Name it to Tame it

In the emotional regulation world, the idea is, if you can name the emotion, you can begin to tame it, or get control over it. Recognizing your emotions and being able to name them are the most important steps (especially for children). In this psycho educational creative group, children came together to use the emotion wheel to understand how many different ways we can feel emotions and how they can present themselves in our bodies. Next, children related experiences to one another about times where they feld different emotions and finally. created a home for a new pet that was filled with items to bring the pet comfort. Each home and item range was unique based on the child creating. The children talked amongst themselves about why their new pet needed each item weaving a beautiful narrative filled with emotion as they worked.

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